Why would anyone want to eat at the scene of chef Gordon Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares”? Aren’t the places featured in the Fox reality TV series characterized by Ramsay’s inimitable screaming management style, and known for their lack of cleanliness, lack of service, lack of finesse in general? Maybe you’ll be lucky and get the “after,” not the “before” experience.

You’ll have two chances when Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares” makes two stops in the area this month. For whatever reason, feel free to make your reservations now:

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.